If you’ve been happily using the Terrarium TV app on your android box or Fire Stick to watch TV and movies for free, you are probably aware that it’s shutting down.

Ever since the turbulent year of 2017 for Kodi streaming add-on users, many people got fed up and abandoned Kodi in favor of native Android apps (referred to as APKs) that do the same thing as the popular Kodi streaming add-ons, but just don’t rely on Kodi.

By far the most popular of these Android TV & movie streaming APKs was Terrarium TV.

Terrarium TV Says Goodbye Forever

On September 11, 2018, Terrarium TV app users received a notification and this message appeared when opening the app.

Apparently, after Terrarium TV rose to such massive adoption and mainstream attention, the developer, NitroXenon (Peter Chan) from Hong Kong, decided to shut it down.

One can only speculate that the developer (once they get too much mainstream attention) may be receiving legal threats to cease and desist or face legal action. Or, the developer could just be fed up with all the fake website posing as the official Terrarium TV website, when there is actually no official website for Terrarium TV.

It’s interesting that another streaming APK called Morpheus also shut down just a month prior. It makes me wonder how many more will be shutting down in the coming months.

Streaming APKs Are No Different From Kodi Streaming Add-ons

I want to take this opportunity to point something out.

Over the past year, there seems to have been an “exodus” of people from Kodi moving to APKs. Why? They were sick of their favorite add-ons getting shut down every month and having to find the next best add-on. APKs were viewed as something immune to this problem.

But, now we know they’re no different at all. It was only a matter of time before the adoption of users brought too much attention to the developers who are then pressured to bail.

What kind of pressure?

Anyway, my point is that if you find a way to watch TV shows and movies for free, it doesn’t matter whether it’s in the form of a Kodi add-on, a native Android app, or something else. It’s eventually going to get too much attention and shut down.

Alternatives to Terrarium TV

Now to the part you’re probably most interested in… what use to replace Terrarium TV?

If you’re still looking for a Netflix-style experience for watching TV shows and movies for free, here are some alternatives…

Patched Terrarium TV APK

Don’t do it!

I only put this here to warn you that there will be lots of impostors with a patched version of Terrarium that continues to work after the Terrarium TV shut-down.

The problem is that these are only “patches” by removing the shut-down warning and letting you get into the app.

But, the app will only work well if the scrapers and providers are kept up-to-date. Without the original developer keeping those updated, the app is going to start having problems.

Show Box

This one has been a popular streaming app for a long time. It goes way back.

On, Show Box, you can watch lots of TV shows and movies. I tried some and they loaded up right away, so I’m impressed there.

One things it doesn’t have is Trakt integration. I would love to be able to bring over my Trakt lists as favorites within the app.

It also does not work well at all on a Fire TV Stick. It seems to only be usable with a touch screen.

Honorable Mention – Mobdro

Mobdro is not exactly a replacement for Terrarium TV, but it goes really well alongside something like TeaTV or Kodi. Mobdro is great for live TV channel streaming, and looks fantastic on a Fire TV Stick. It has the best interface I’ve seen for Fire OS.

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